Lamar visits Po and East Texas A&M

Lamar Cardinals (5-5, 2-1 Southland) at East Texas A&M Lions (5-5, 1-2 Southland)

Commerce, Texas; Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: East Texas A&M hosts Lamar after Reza Po scored 22 points in East Texas A&M’s 71-68 win over the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks.

The Lions are 4-1 on their home court. East Texas A&M is fifth in the Southland at limiting opponent scoring, allowing 69.3 points while holding opponents to 39.6% shooting.

The Cardinals are 2-1 in Southland play. Lamar is 2-5 against opponents over .500.

East Texas A&M scores 70.2 points, 10.2 more per game than the 60.0 Lamar allows. Lamar has shot at a 37.9% rate from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points fewer than the 39.6% shooting opponents of East Texas A&M have averaged.

The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Po is scoring 14.7 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Lions. Cora Horvath is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers.

Shaila Forman is averaging 12 points and 1.8 steals for the Cardinals. Jacei Denley is averaging 10.1 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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